frôlent
\fʁol\
The verdict
“frôlent” is uncommon French (frequency #53,362 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,362
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de frôler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-frolent · frôlent · French
frôlent · rank #53,362 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,362
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fruitière
Nearest frequency peer: fruitière (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « frôlent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Francie
Francie
46,642 corpus weight
- fruitière
fruitière
46,640 corpus weight
- frôlent
frôlent
46,639 corpus weight
- fuchsia
fuchsia
46,638 corpus weight
- fusionnant
fusionnant
46,637 corpus weight
- fédéré
fédéré
46,636 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « frôlent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | frôlent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fʁol\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #53,362 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « frôlent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
frôlent is uncommon French at frequency #53,362 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \fʁol\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for frôlent, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is frôlent, spelled F-R-Ô-L-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de frôler.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de frôler.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how frôlent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les intérêts adaptatifs n’y sont pas exclus, mais tangentialisés – c’est-à-dire qu’ils touchent ou frôlent ce qui se déroule dans le baquet.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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